Return to Article: Lack of detention space hinders efforts to track fugitive immigrants
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Very sadly, an illegal immigrant in Virginia Beach this past weekend rear ended two high school students sitting at a red light killing them both. Yes, this guy had a record, including alcohol related. He was intoxicated at the time of the crash.
They knew this man was an illegal resident for quite some time, but did absolutely nothing about it.
What does it take?
I wonder if he had of rear-ended Bush's daughters and killed them what would be done.
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Expand the number of beds, and expedite the deportation process, which is currently too cumbersome, too complicated, and too long! Then move on to the millions of other aliens who are in this country illegally. While construction of new beds is going on, why not use the former military bases that were closed due to BRAC for temporary detention centers?
The other choice is to just toss in the towel, and grant amnesty, which would only encourage millions more to come here in the hopes of getting similar treatment (remember the amnesty program 20 years ago?). Fortunately, an overwhelming number of Americans favor getting tough on illegal immigration. Now if we could only get the pandering politicians to listen to the will of the people, instead of special interest groups, we might accomplish something!
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22049
This is just off the cuff, but the way I see it we have a shortage of military personnel and too many illegals so why not place all illegals in the military for four years. If they don't want to perform their four years, we contact Mexican officials and tell them to pick them up at the border immediately and charge Mexico a fine for trespassing and failing to secure the border. Failure to pay these fines would result in trade embargos. This way Mexico will start assisting in securing the border. I'll bet if Americans were pouring into their country and costing their government money they wouldn't be nearly as considerate as our conservative vote shopping government officials. Also has anyone considered applying pressure to American companies in Mexico? Mexico is profiting from these companies and should these companies pull out and sales decrease Mexico would suffer.
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I have not focused on this issue because I have no answers. It is interesting that one group of people wants to come here for money and the other, far smaller, group (Al Qaeda) wants to destroy our system that creates jobs and money. Prisons are not the answer. Non-farming jobs need to be created south of the border, at least as part of the answer.
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"Bag 'em, tag 'em, gag 'em and toss them back". If they return, imprison them, next the folks who hired them, and they can harvest our crops even cheaper than before. No nasty loitering or criminal behavior, 'cause they'll be in jail!
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Robert M.,
Some illegal aliens are felons. Also, these folks are working with our food supply without the benefit of being screened for contagious diseases.
The problem could be fixed by paying American citizens a living wage with benefits.
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21993
This posting is directed to respondent Stephen Taylor,
The number of fugitives, 623,000, are illegal aliens in the United States illegally in violation of INS laws, many of whom have committed other serious state and federal offenses. None of these are U.S. citizens.
Unless you have not read a newspaper or seen the national news in the last 15 years, this number is probably at the low end and is in the very forefront of the network news. The invasion of criminal illegal aliens, including gang members, drug dealers and serious violent offenders is totally overwhelming the criminal justice system in this country and undermining the very fabric of our society as we know it.
Neither this administration nor the previous one has taken the problem of illegal immigration seriously or with any sense of urgency. All Bush wants to do now is to grant amnesty to as many illegal aliens as possible and then declare that the problem has been solved.
Remember Reagan granted amnesty to illegal aliens in 1985 and 1986 and we're still seeing the catastrophic results of that failed amnesty policy today.
I spent more than 25 years as a Border Patrol agent, INS special agent and DHS/ICE special agent enforcing these laws, and have yet to see an administration that was serious about this problem. This directly impacts our national well-being and national security.
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21986
Pick a number, any number! What sheer nonsense. How do 'they' calculate the number of illegal infiltrators? Sure, you can count up all the thousands of fugitives based on the huge volume amassed by the ex-INS bureaucracy, but how do they figure out the alleged 12 million? It's as ridiculous as estimating the world-wide drug trade based on the amount of narcotics seized! Wake up America, we're still losing.
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The number 623,000 seems extremely large for the number of outstanding fugitive warrants. Is it accurate? Are the fugitives American citizens? That many foreign national fugitives would be a real cause for concern.
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Evidently we are not sending them home fast enough. We need to be more efficient.
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But, there should be plenty of spaces opening up. The illegal immigrant chase has caused such a crisis in the agriculture industry that states are making prison laborers available to harvest perishable crops. Those cucumbers in your salad may have been picked by felons. So just put the immigrants in the cells while thieves roam the fields.
It's much better to have criminals handling your food than illegal immigrants. Right?
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